Word: hollywoodized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME'S PRESS EDITOR GIVES EXCELLENT ACCOUNT NEWSPRINT-HUNGRY FLEET STREET [TIME, DEC. 15] BUT ERRS GRIEVOUSLY IN SWEEPING STATEMENT "U.S. NEWS RARELY MAKES THE FRONT PAGES UNLESS IT IS SUCH MUSICOMEDY STUFF AS THE 'HOLLYWOOD HEARINGS."' IN 78 ISSUES OF THE LONDON DAILY TELEGRAPH PUBLISHED BETWEEN SEPT. 11 AND DEC. 10 AMERICAN NEWS APPEARED ON FRONT PAGE ON 71 DIFFERENT DAYS. SOMETIMES THERE WERE SEVERAL AMERICAN STORIES ON FRONT PAGE. . . . HARDLY ANY OF THEM DEALT WITH THE HOLLYWOOD HEARINGS...
Gentleman's Agreement (American). Hollywood proficiency at its slickest, put at the service of the year's most searching discussion of anti-Semitism (TIME...
Died. Mark Hellinger, 44, pioneer Broadway columnist, Hollywood producer (The Killers); of coronary thrombosis; in Los Angeles. Convivial, flashy Hellinger lived exactly as gossip-column fans imagine a "Broadwayite" should, married Gladys Glad, a Ziegfeld showgirl, moved to filmland to become one of Hollywood's most enthusiastic practical jokers and its prototype of a "swell...
Indeed you can't. They may fool everybody by seeing that this movie is a preposterously shallow mishandling of some perfectly real problems. It is also a characteristic Hollywood job of turning worthwhile material into trash and presenting it so stylishly that at times it looks good. The dialogue, an affected, pseudo-sophisticated patter, is spoken with such expert variety of inflection that it sounds real, and even intelligent...
...Hollywood's most encouraging tendency was to move out of the studios to actual locales (notably in The Fugitive, Boomerang.', Kiss of Death, 13 Rue Madeleine), and to start handling at least reasonably live social issues (Crossfire, Gentleman's Agreement...